For the millions of homes listed online for sale, rental, and renovation, we need more than just a showcase of 3D floor layouts, interior materials, and environmental context. Understanding indoor lighting and heating properties is also crucial. This session will highlight a novel 3D rendering technique that pairs indoor and outdoor panoramas to generate floor layouts and render new virtual scenes under different lighting conditions—all without manual modeling. You'll also learn about applications that estimate indoor global light distribution and create panoramic heat maps from a single indoor panorama, which streamlines the standard design process and building performance analysis.
Learning Objectives
- Explore high dynamic range photography techniques for capturing indoor and outdoor scenes.
- Discuss the advantages of panoramic images for showcasing real-world environments along with their applications in architectural design, lighting research, and heat estimation.
- Review the basic concepts of inverse rendering techniques, which use a single image as input to directly infer 3D geometry, material properties, and lighting conditions.
- Learn about data-driven approaches in floor layout generation and scene design.